Cluniac

Definitions

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n. A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One of a reformed order of Benedictine monks (the order of Cluny), which originated in the celebrated abbey of Cluny in Saône-et-Loire, France, founded about 910, and was very numerous in France for several centuries.

Of or pertaining to the Benedictine monks of the order of Cluny.

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Hence, though it has been described as a Cluniac establishment in ancient documents, even in papal letters of so late a date as 1309, it was never an "alien" house, and Cluny can only claim the credit of having set it going with monks and monastic customs.

The son of northern French nobility, and a former cleric and Cluniac monk, he became pope in 1088, at a time when the papacy, reeling from a rancorous and protracted power struggle with the emperor of Germany, stood on the brink of overthrow.

The network -- which now has some 90 member towns and sites -- was started in 1994 on the millennium of the death of the inspirational Abbot Mayeul, who converted countless monasteries to the Cluniac way of life.